Could Hope Inspect Her Basis
Could Hope Inspect Her Basis - meaning Summary
Fragile Certainty of Hope
Dickinson questions the foundation of Hope, asking whether it rests on a real charter or is entirely imagined. The poem compresses a tension between resilience and fragility: Hope can be ‘‘balked’’ in great tests yet capable of renewal, but a single act — an "assassin" — can fell even prosperity. It presents Hope as uncertain, conditional, and subject to abrupt reversal despite moments of recovery.
Read Complete AnalysesCould Hope inspect her Basis Her Craft were done – Has a fictitious Charter Or it has none – Balked in the vastest instance But to renew – Felled by but one assassin – Prosperity –
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